How much will it fetch?
“Richie Lerma, advisor of Salcedo Auctions, expects the first edition copy of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere to be one of the main draws when they hold their biggest auction yet, a two-day event that happens on September 20 to 21 at the Rockwell Tent,” reports Cathy Yamsuan in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
According to Lerma, the book was sold by a descendant of Rizal’s elder sister, Narcisa Rizal-Lopez.
The report noted: “Rizal, during his stay in Germany, had limited funds and only managed to publish 2,000 copies of the controversial book that earned him the ire of Spanish colonizers. Many of those copies that reached Philippine shores were destroyed immediately at their behest.”
The first edition of Noli Me Tangere was published in the Spanish language and printed ni Berlin in 1887.
The National Library of the Philippines owns the original manuscript, which is kept in a dual-lock combination metal vault inside an air-conditioned room at its Rare Books and Manuscripts section, reports Anna Valmero on loQal.com.
